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Lost Hills: Dark Canyon

4. Gidget Goes to Hollywood, Pt2

Lost Hills: Dark Canyon

Western Sound and Pushkin Industries

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Kathy Kohner’s family were immigrants from Eastern Europe who helped launch the Golden Age of Hollywood. Miki Dora’s family had also escaped the rise of fascism to start anew in California. Their fathers were part of the same tight-knit emigre community. But Miki decides that Kathy is an interloper. And tries to drive her out of Malibu.

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0:00.0

Pushkin

0:07.0

Hey Lost Hills listeners, it's Dana.

0:12.4

I wanted to let you know that you can hear the entire new season of Lost Hills ad-free,

0:17.4

along with other great binge listens by becoming a Pushkin Plus subscriber.

0:22.0

Find Pushkin Plus on the Lost Hills Show page in Apple Podcasts or at pushkin.fm-plus.

0:30.0

The Gidget movie came out in the spring of 1959.

0:40.0

Gidget is the story of a young blonde teenage gal who spends a fabulous summer at Malibu Beach

0:45.5

with a surfboarders.

0:46.5

Of course, you know Gidget was a very big bestseller and they made it into a tremendous motion picture

0:52.5

in color and in cinemasco.

0:55.2

It starred a 16 year old Sandra D as Gidget.

0:58.5

Hi, I'm Sandra D. It's such fun living in California and being able to pick fresh flowers

1:04.8

for my hair.

1:06.2

Sandra D was tiny and blonde, the Hollywood version of the All-American Girl.

1:12.1

In the movie, Gidget's real name was Frances Lawrence, not Kathy Koner, and she had a

1:17.8

bland American mom and dad right out of a 50s sitcom.

1:22.8

But the real Gidget had a family that was much more layered.

1:26.5

They were European and Jewish.

1:29.3

And for what it's worth, Kathy had dark hair.

1:32.8

In the early 30s, Kathy's father, Frederick Koner, had been a screenwriter in Berlin.

1:38.2

His first film premiered just as Hitler was declaring a boycott on Jewish businesses.

1:43.1

Here's Kathy.

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